Clarkson University Professor Andrea Ferro, faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute for a Sustainable Environment associate director for research, has been awarded the Distinction in Faculty Mentoring for Research and Scholarship Award.
The Distinction in Faculty Mentoring for Research and Scholarship Award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to faculty mentoring in research and scholarship by actively assisting pre-tenure and mid-career faculty in developing their careers.
Ferro teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in atmospheric chemistry and physics, human exposure analysis, risk analysis, environmental engineering, and sustainable development engineering. She has advised 20 masters and Ph.D. students and 30 undergraduate students in her research group.
Ferro is the current president of the American Association for Aerosol Research, the primary organization in the Americas for communicating technical advances in aerosol engineering and science. Her primary expertise is in air pollution with a specific research focus is in the emission, fate, transport, and human exposure of airborne particles.
Ferro was recently co-recipient of a $199,369 award from the National Science Foundation awarded in response to a solicitation seeking proposals to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19. A multi-disciplinary group of professors is examining how air expelled from the mouth during speech contributes to the spread of the virus.
She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles and delivered 150 papers at professional and academic conferences throughout the world. She has managed research projects totaling over $4 million from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Health Effects Institute and other funding agencies. She is a 2008 recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.
Ferro holds a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering and master of science degree in civil engineering from Stanford University, and a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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